About the book: year / A ship with convicts is sent to Cathair Crofind. When something exploded on a nearby pier, three of the convict brethren escaped. Three pairs of hands is a serious mistake and a punishable omission from service... The guards found a way out of the situation - they picked up three unconscious people who happened to be in the port during the explosion. One of them was Svarog. Of course, they will look for the king. Mara and Garzhak will raise the entire police to their feet, but who knows where... And Svarog has only two ways out of the situation: either obediently wait until he arrives on the island and try to do something there, or raise his fellow sufferers to revolt and seize the ship…